The Little Kids
Robert and Bessie’s little kids, Teck and Vern, enrolled at the same college where they each followed the required curriculum to obtain teaching degrees.00 Normally, they helped finance their education by working at summer jobs in Portland, Oregon, while staying with their Aunt Audrey and her family.00 Nevertheless, one time they broke tradition by seeking and obtaining employment in the breathtakingly beautiful Glacier National Park. Prior to their summer break, Vern, Teck, and Bonnie, a college friend of theirs, journeyed to Minneapolis, where they applied for summer work at the park. They received an interview with a representative that just happened to be an alumnus of their college. The representative hired the …show more content…
A letter from their mother, Bessie, answered their prayers. In addition to news from back home and words of encouragement, the letter contained a twenty-dollar bill. With renewed appreciation for their thoughtful mother, the two sisters purchased enough food to sustain them until they received their employment compensation. Verna, the least practical of the two, spent a portion of their remaining meager funds on a baton and used it to provide baton lessons to the girls at their school. Years later, one of her pupils became a majorette for her high school’s band, which Verna found …show more content…
To carry out his or her role in the program, each child needed apparel that matched their persona. Thus, with one exception, Vern and Teck sent notes home with the children requesting that their parents fashion the appropriate costumes. Since most of the parents in the school district were exceedingly poor, Vern and Teck didn’t wish to burden the parents of the boy assigned the part of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with the task of making his complex attire. Thus, they didn’t send a note home with “Rudolph” and intended on making the costume for the boy themselves. However, in the backcountry environment, “Rudolph’s” parents soon figured out that their son was the only child that didn’t come home with a wardrobe request. With no desire to be remiss in their parental duties, they felt an obligation to
Robert and Bessie’s little kids, Teck and Vern, enrolled at the same college where they each followed the required curriculum to obtain teaching degrees.00 Normally, they helped finance their education by working at summer jobs in Portland, Oregon, while staying with their Aunt Audrey and her family.00 Nevertheless, one time they broke tradition by seeking and obtaining employment in the breathtakingly beautiful Glacier National Park. Prior to their summer break, Vern, Teck, and Bonnie, a college friend of theirs, journeyed to Minneapolis, where they applied for summer work at the park. They received an interview with a representative that just happened to be an alumnus of their college. The representative hired the …show more content…
A letter from their mother, Bessie, answered their prayers. In addition to news from back home and words of encouragement, the letter contained a twenty-dollar bill. With renewed appreciation for their thoughtful mother, the two sisters purchased enough food to sustain them until they received their employment compensation. Verna, the least practical of the two, spent a portion of their remaining meager funds on a baton and used it to provide baton lessons to the girls at their school. Years later, one of her pupils became a majorette for her high school’s band, which Verna found …show more content…
To carry out his or her role in the program, each child needed apparel that matched their persona. Thus, with one exception, Vern and Teck sent notes home with the children requesting that their parents fashion the appropriate costumes. Since most of the parents in the school district were exceedingly poor, Vern and Teck didn’t wish to burden the parents of the boy assigned the part of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with the task of making his complex attire. Thus, they didn’t send a note home with “Rudolph” and intended on making the costume for the boy themselves. However, in the backcountry environment, “Rudolph’s” parents soon figured out that their son was the only child that didn’t come home with a wardrobe request. With no desire to be remiss in their parental duties, they felt an obligation to